Mods, Trons, Natchos, and Soldiers. If you say so, Serpents.

Modern Vespa got interesting today, though this is exactly the kind of information I need before next weekend.

A must-see from motoblog.it: A beautiful stop-motion animation of the history of the Vespa featuring toys, illustrations, and vintage posters and photographs.

We’ve been begging DiamoUSA for Italjet details for months, but apparently Guzman has a better connection. He’s got all the pricing for the 2007 models, and says the Torpedo may be available already. (Is it? I wish the Diamo site had a dealer list.) The pricing is interesting, the water-cooled Torpedo 150, at [...]

In my post about Khurana’s “new” Lambrettas last week, I said: The Khuranas are selling bikes from a slightly-lower-tier maker, using one of the most beloved names in scooterdom. They almost certainly have no global rights to the Lambretta name, and even the American rights are questionable. (Note the logo on the bikes and the Lambretta [...]

A stereotyped-but-funny quote from a Times real estate story last week: Ask the average Briton what he considers the most socially unacceptable forms of behaviour and he will probably answer: swearing, drink-driving and smoking in public. Ask the average Italian man driving home from the bar on his Vespa why neither he nor the eight-year-old on [...]

6 already!? It sort of snuck up on us this year, but MODchicago’s sixth annual weekender is coming up in a couple days. If you’re not circling a great lake this weekend, check it out.

My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with the girl who saw LML making scooters at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious. OK, it’s not quite that convoluted, but we just heard that LML’s plant is officially back up and running, making Euro-market [...]

“Well, somebody had to do it!” is the perfect motto for the Chinese Scooter Owners Club. We’re glad someone did, the archive of Chinese manuals and tech tips is a welcome addition to the web. We’ll all be begging these guys for advice sooner or later.

Now that the Galewood rally has gone the way of the dinosaur and two stroke twins, there was little to remind us of what I like to call Beebmas.  Today we celebrate the birth of the man at the helm of 2StrokeBuzz.  All of us here at the corporate office would like to wish Bryan a [...]